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Meal Plans WB 26th December 2011

JulieGeorgiana
JulieGeorgiana Posts: 2,475 Forumite
Debt-free and Proud!
edited 29 December 2011 at 12:15PM in Old style MoneySaving
CHRISTMAS WEEK :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:

So this week for my boys is:

Friday - Pesto Pasta :dance:
Saturday - LO Pesto Pasta :dance:
Sunday - CHRISTMAS DAY MENU :dance:
Monday - [STRIKE]LO Freezer Surprise[/STRIKE] Boys were poorly so eggy pasta for them
Tuesday - [STRIKE]LO Freezer Surprise[/STRIKE] Christmas Leftover Pie :dance:
Wednesday - LO Christmas Leftover Pie :dance:
Thursday - [STRIKE]LO Christmas Leftover Pie[/STRIKE] LO Freezer Spaghetti Bolognaise :dance:

CHRISTMAS DAY MENU

Breakfast Buffet: Fried Eggs, Bacon, Chipolatas, Black Pudding, Fried Bread, Beans, Mushrooms and Hash Browns

Dinner Buffet: Chicken Breast, Stuffing, Sausages wrapped in Bacon, Roasted Potatoes, Honeyed Carrots and Parsnips, Petit pois, Baby Carrots, Sweetcorn, Yorkshire Puddings, Mash Potatoes, Bread Sauce and Cranberry Jelly.

Dessert: Yule Log

Christmas Leftover Pie: Bacon, Chipolatas, Mushrooms, Chicken Breast, Sausages wrapped in Bacon, Honeyed Carrots and Parsnips, Petit pois, Baby Carrots, Sweetcorn and Cranberry Jelly. All covered in gravy and topped with a pastry lid :)

Good Luck this Week Everyone! Have a GREAT Christmas x
We spend money we don't have, on things that we don't need, to impress people we don't like. I don't and I'm happy!
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  • Linda32
    Linda32 Posts: 4,385 Forumite
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    Hello all,

    Starting Monday: Same tea as Christmas day - cold cuts and turkey
    Tuesday: Same as Monday if not fed up with it by then :D
    Wednesday: back to normal so *goes down stairs to fetch ongoing meal plan to use* Spag Bol
    Thursday: Chuncky pasta sauce over pasta, with courgettes and broad beans mixed in, with crusty bread
    Friday: Chipy chips on Fridays
    Saturday: Snos and mash
    Sunday: Roast Chicken

    This is subject to change, depending on whether we have anything left to use up.
  • CH27
    CH27 Posts: 5,531 Forumite
    Sunday -- Turkey dinner:j

    Monday -- Roast beef dinner
    Tuesday -- Left over beef & gammon with salad or chips
    Wednesday -- same as above
    Thursday -- Turkey stew or soup
    Friday -- Chips & egg.
    Saturday -- depends on son's plans.
    Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
  • Today - Creamy mustard pork chops, potatoes, broccoli and carrots
    Friday - Jamie Oliver's Empire Chicken, bombay potatoes and whatever veg I can find
    Saturday - not entirely sure yet - may make cooked breakfast and then a big pot of soup for everyone to help themselves to as and when and then in the evening start on nibbles! (yum, yum!)
    Sunday - Full breakfast and then roast turkey and all the trimmings, turkey and cranberry sauce sandwiches
    Monday - Cold turkey and bubble and squeak with chutneys etc, turkey and cranberry sauce sandwiches
    Tuesday - down with family - everyone takes stuff for a buffet
    Wednesday - turkey lasagned
    Thursday - MY BIRTHDAY (a big one!) - so getting ready for party in the evening - loads of buffet food.
    Friday - back to Turkey!!
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Thursday - LO Christmas Leftover Pie

    Loving the leftover leftovers :rotfl:

    Starting today: Freezer surprise, which turned out to be chicken stirfry, rice,carrots & some other random veg
    Fri: One pot chicken with squash
    Sat: Xmas Eve :xmassmile. Smoked salmon, glazed gammon (done in sc & bunged in oven at end)
    Sun: Xmas Day :xmassign:. Pheasant & lamb, roast veg, brussels, pigs in blankets. Whole litter of them :)
    Mon: On my own :T. Leftovers (bubble & squeak?). Pheasant soup :D.
    Tues: Thai green curry
    Weds: G&T at Luton Airport then off to Spain, dinner will be a baguette & a bottle of wine when we arrive :rotfl:
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • freakyogre
    freakyogre Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    A pretty standard plan for me as i'm at my sister's for Christmas Day and then back to work on Boxing Day (boooo :()

    Monday - quesadilla with caramelised red onion, peppers and cheese (and anything else I fancy)

    Tuesday - beef stew and dumplings

    Wednesday - chicken supreme with rice

    Thursday - homemade cheese burger with potato wedges

    Friday - pasta bake

    Saturday - chicken fajitas

    Sunday - sausages with roasted vegetables and cous cous (note to self; check you have sausages!)

    New Year's Eve may change as i'm not sure what i'm doing yet, but won't be anything too exciting as i'm working New Year's Eve and Day (double booooo!)
    Grocery challenge - Nov: £52/£100
  • Friday: Chilli con carne I made yesterday but with Potatoes and cheese on top
    Sat: Chicken Drum Sticks with a skin on Polenta and herbs (Hm) and HM chips
    Sun: At my mums
    Monday: At my Mums
    Tuesday: Toad in the hole with hm Chips
    wednesday: pasta with Tuna and sweetcorn in Mayo
    thursday:Sweetcorn Fritters with hm chips
    friday: Rice with peas and sweetcorn and soy sauce
    sat: Roast chicken Dinner
    Sun: At my Mums

    I am going to try and find out about Rubber chicken on here as I think I have read I can make the most of the Chicken for a few days afterwards. I used to just bin it.
    February GC £261.97/24 NSDS 10/12
    march 300/290 NSD 12/6
    ARPIL 300/ 238.23 NSD'S 10/3

  • I am going to try and find out about Rubber chicken on here as I think I have read I can make the most of the Chicken for a few days afterwards. I used to just bin it.

    Try this thread >> Rubber Chicken

    It's got all the threads linked together, so it's a big archieve.

    I personally cook a 2kg Chicken and can get 4 curries from it, each feeds 6-8 adults! Which is 26 portions! Then I get stock from the carcass! Good Luck.
    We spend money we don't have, on things that we don't need, to impress people we don't like. I don't and I'm happy!
    :dance: Mortgage Free Wannabe :dance:
    Overpayments Made: £5400 - Interest Saved: £11,550 - Months Saved: 24
  • Thank you :D
    February GC £261.97/24 NSDS 10/12
    march 300/290 NSD 12/6
    ARPIL 300/ 238.23 NSD'S 10/3

  • FRI: Sausages
    Sat: Sausages
    Sun: Sausages
    Mon: Sausages
    Tues: Sausages
    Wed: Sausages
    T
    hurs:Sausages
    Fri: Chips
  • Ooh, I've been a bit tardy this week. But obviously I have a house full of cooked food.

    Yesterday (Monday): bubble and squeak with pigs in blankets. Plus we went to a party at someone else's house.
    Today (Tuesday): cold turkey and salt beef with baked potatoes and salad cranberry sauce and bread sauce, plus making the turkey soup.
    Tomorrow (Wednesday) hm gnocchi from leftover mash, sauce from leftover cheeseboard, coleslaw, plus make and freeze the turkey curry for Saturday night.
    Thursday: Using up some of the salmon in the freezer; either finding a way of reusing the steaks or a fish soup or fisherman's pie or pasta.
    Friday: Fantastic salt beef sandwiches I think, with hm semi-rye bread and mustard, hard cheese, and maybe some pickles if I've got any or cucumber soaked in vinegar if I don't.
    Saturday: Big New Year's Eve dinner. Turkey curry, veg/bean curry as a side, rice. Some sort of sponge pudding for dessert as I have this empty pudding basin just hanging around now.
    Saturday and Sunday lunches -- we'll have guests. Need more hm bread and bought bagels, but these meals are both 'eat up holiday provisions' affairs and because we got given *two* hampers I don't think there's really likely to be a shortage. Plus my friends will probably bring things.
    Monday -- last bank holiday, possibly wintry leek and potato soup.
    Tuesday -- still have beef in freezer for beef stew, also plenty of potatoes and carrots. Make for 8 freeze half.
    Wednesday -- the other salmon meal, either salmon steaks with potatoes and peas if we didn't have them last week, or fish pasta.
    Thursday -- surely there will be leftovers from all that? Leftover Roulette. If all else fails eggs on toast.
    Friday 6 January -- first grocery delivery of 2012.

    Lunches are soup, bread, cheese, nibbles, bits and bobs.
    Make £2023 in 2023: (all decluttering), current total £2860 me, £330 for friends & family, £468 charity donations.
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